Movies Just The Ticket For De Niro

People

December 4, 1985

American actor Robert De Niro, in Havana for a festival of Latin American films, says movies can help international understanding, Cuba`s news agency reports. De Niro and fellow actors Treat Williams and Christopher Walken are attending the seventh International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which began Monday, the Prensa Latina agency said. ``For me, cinema can help understanding among nations, since when you see movies from other countries you know how their people live,`` the Cuban news agency quoted him.

OH LORD, OLIVIER IN A MUSIC VIDEO

Lord Laurence Olivier will make his music video debut in a clip for a Paul Hardcastle single Just For Money, and he`s heard on the record, too. Hardcastle wrote and produced 19, a controversial synthesizer record about the Vietnam War that became an unlikely dance-club hit. Just For Money has as its subjects the St. Valentine`s Day Massacre and the Great Train Robbery, and Olivier was joined by actor Bob Hoskins in recording spoken parts. The video is filled with newsreel-style footage and sepia-tinted cameo shots of Olivier and Hoskins acting as commentators.

MOORE`S TV PAPER AN IM-POST-ER

A Chicago newspaper publisher is trying to stop the presses on Mary Tyler Moore`s new television show. Moore plays an advice columnist in Mary, which makes it debut Dec. 11. The name of her television newspaper is the Chicago Post, which happens to be the name of Richard Mell`s real-life publication. Mell`s Post is a free monthly publication aimed at the Northwest Side neighborhood where he is an alderman. He says the name of his 2-year-old publication is protected by federal and state trademark laws and he wants Mary to come up with a new name for its newspaper.

ALL IS FORGIVEN -- ROYALS GET AUDIENCE

Prince Michael of Kent and his wife will have a private audience with Pope John Paul II on Monday, more than seven years after the Vatican refused them permission to marry in a Roman Catholic church ceremony. The couple married in Vienna`s City Hall on June 30, 1978, after the Vatican refused to grant them a dispensation that formerly married Catholics need to marry in a church ceremony. In 1983, however, the pope gave permission for the validation of their marriage. The couple renewed their wedding vows and their marriage was retroactively blessed by a Catholic priest. Prince Michael, 43, is an Anglican like the rest of Britain`s royal family. His 40-year-old Austrian-born wife, Princess Michael, is a twice-married Roman Catholic.

COUPLE SAYS DOLLY, JANE STOLE `9 TO 5`

A suit filed by a husband-wife songwriting team who claim Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda stole the hit title song of the film 9 to 5 from their song, Money World went to trial Tuesday. Neil and Jan Goldberg, also known as Gandharva and Eternity, filed a copyright infringement suit in federal court demanding profits from Parton`s recording, plus $1 million in punitive damages.